Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, N…

hang on, who were Allen and Arden worried about?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: hang on, be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1995 «Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, Naois takes her to Scotland, and Connachar invites them back to a feast» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 worried	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 worried	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 worried	cop
6	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 worried	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Arden	cc
8	Arden	Arden	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Allen	conj
9	worried	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 hang	parataxis
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 worried	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past						about, worry property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Naois getting Deirdre for himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 getting	nsubj
2	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 getting	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 getting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund	Naois	Deirdre				for Naois	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent deirdre=Theme for himself=Source

Option 2

Connachar taking Deirdre back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 taking	nsubj
2	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 taking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	gerund	Connachar		Deirdre				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument deirdre=Destination

Option 3

Naois stealing the king's gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stealing	nsubj
2	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gold	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund	Naois	the king's gold					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Naois getting Deirdre for himself, which was the thing they had feared all along on the road

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Naois	acl
3	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 getting	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 getting	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 thing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Naois	appos
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feared	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 feared	aux
13	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thing	acl:relcl
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 along	advmod
15	along	along	ADV	_	13 feared	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 road	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 road	det
18	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	gerund	Naois not said here	Deirdre		for Deirdre	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent deirdre=Theme for himself=Source
2	is a	past	Naois	the thing			tree rules
3	fear	past · perfect · passive	the thing not said here	they	the road	along property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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